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And remember, too, although you can not understand it, who have never seen bad acting or heard bad singing, how this ability of one troupe to play or sing to the whole earth at once has operated to take away the occupation of mediocre artists, seeing that everybody, being able to see and hear the best, will hear them and see them only."
Then she went on: "I want you all to understand that your recitations must be up to the average while you put in your time on such a mediocre performance as this you are determined upon. Of course, if the play was of an educational nature we might relax our school rules a little " "Oh! Oh! Bribery!" whispered Jess to Nellie. "It seems," Mr.
Yet she was intensely proud of the work of any member of her family whether it might be sister, daughter, son, nephew, or grandson and seemed to get more happiness out of anything we did than from her own work. She was appalled at the great flood of mediocre writing that has been pouring over the United States in the last decade or two, and speaks of it thus in a letter written to Mr.
Where there is neither love nor hatred in the game, woman's play is mediocre. The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us. The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
Petrea was quite confounded by this sudden change, and sought in all possible ways to discover the cause of it. "But why," asked she, with tears in her eyes, "will you not go with us?" "Because I will not go," answered Sara, "if I cannot go with honour, and in my own way! I will not be mixed up in a mass of every-day mediocre people! It is in my power to become distinguished and uncommon.
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs apart from discernment a certain greatness to find him. The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything. I have never met a woman of supreme beauty with more than a mediocre intellect, by which I do not mean intelligence.
The cartoons are not better than any mediocre student of the Beaux-Arts could do insipid parodies of the Venetian whom she excels, according to Mr. Watts.
As her eyes and hands met his, her soul gave a little half-humorous "Oh!" of surprise; for photography, which seems to have been invented to flatter the mediocre and belittle the exceptional, had indeed given Londonderry an "interesting face," as we have heard, but missed all the rest "all the rest" of a large, mobile, talking face, not exactly handsome perhaps, but decidedly good-looking and full of various commands and appeals, thought on the brow and laughter in the eyes, humour and eloquence all along the large and somewhat loose mouth, with plenty of go in the powerful but not anxiously determined chin.
After so many sins, to leave me can he dare?" They proclaimed tragedy; it had appeared at last to Corneille; its features, roughly sketched, were nevertheless recognizable. He was already studying Spanish with an old friend of his family, and was working at the Cid, when he brought out his Illusion Comique, a mediocre piece, Corneille's last sacrifice to the taste of his day.
In these cases they remain misfits. Oftentimes they succeed in getting into positions of comparatively mediocre executive nature, when they could assume and make a success of very much higher positions if they had a true knowledge of their vocations. The story of Hon.
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